Boom Defence Vessel

Famous quotes containing the words boom, defence and/or vessel:

“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)

“There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.”
—E.V. (Edward Verrall)

“Demagogue—a vessel containing beer and other liquids.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)